Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we are getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscarra, tuning in from a very rainy San Francisco.

Yesterday, we discussed how to take on a simple mindset shift,

where instead of viewing life as happening to us, what if we viewed it as happening for us?

Today I'd like to continue with that perspective, but specifically in the context of people. More to come on that in a bit.

First, let's just start by settling in with the sound of the bells. And if you're not

into the bells or maybe you get to this

portion of the podcast and you kind of just tune out and wait for them to be over,

see if you can actually make this a

practice, a practice for 10 seconds, making this the most important thing in the world right now,

bringing full presence, attunedment, focus,

really trying on that perspective, and just see how it goes.

If nothing else, this is like your 15 second meditation practice,

and then you could say you meditated today.

All right, so let's try it out. So after yesterday's episode I was scrolling through Facebook and looking through a lot of nonsense, but came across one

post that caught my attention by my friend and fellow meditation teacher, Jeremy Lipkowitz.

And I felt like the post was connected to the theme of yesterday.

As I already mentioned, it was this idea that so often we're going through life and these experiences

or hardships or life in general is just coming at us and it can feel like we're inundated by it, overwhelmed by it, that life is just happening to us

and we have to get through it. And we could shift that perspective to maybe life is happening

for us.

As soon as we take on that perspective,

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